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Saturday, March 11, 2017

The Obervations of Robert Reich

Robert Reich

Robert Reich's Biography

Robert
Reich is an American economist also known for his commentary on key political
issues. He has served under a number of administrations during his professional
career, including those of Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Gerald
Fold.

Reich
was born on 24th June, 1946, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He
received his initial education from the John Jay High School in New York, after
which he joined Dartmouth College to pursue his further education. Reich
completed his A.B. summa cum laude in 1968 from the institute, and in the
process, earned the Rhodes Scholarship which allowed him to study politics,
economics and philosophy at Oxford University. After failing to meet the
requirements necessary to serve in the Vietnam War, Reich instead opted to
enroll at Yale University where he managed to complete a Juris Doctorate and become
editor of the prestigious Yale Law Journal. During his time at the
university, Reich had the good fortune of being classmates with renowned
personalities such as Bill Clinton, Clarence Thomas and Hilary Clinton.

After
finishing his education, Reich found a job at the U.S. Court of Appeals of the
First Circuit, where he worked under Chief Judge Frank M. Coffin as his law
clerk in the years 1973-74. He then quit to work as the assistant of Robert
Bork, the U.S. Solicitor General, from the years 1974 to 1976. In 1979, Reich
began working for the Federal Trade Commission, as then President Jimmy Carter
assigned him Directorship of the Policy Planning Staff.

In
the years that followed, Reich decided to take up teaching as a profession, and
thus joined Harvard University where he became professor at the John F. Kennedy
School of Government. He assumed the status of a prolific writer during his
time at Harvard as well, publishing a number of works which discussed the state
of U.S. economy etc. Two of his most famous books of the time were The Next American Frontier and The Work of Nations. The
former discussed the nation’s stalling economic progress and the factors behind
it, whereas the latter identified education and human capital as the key
attributes behind the competitiveness of a nation’s economy.

Reich
spent 12 years teaching at Harvard, after which he was called on by Bill
Clinton in 1992 to join his campaign. Reich accepted the offer, and became the
leader of Clinton’s economic transition team which was driving the campaign
“Putting People First”. He was later made the Secretary of Labor by Clinton.
His tenure proved to be a very successful one, with Reich managing to satisfy a
number of objectives, including the enactment of the Family and Medical Leave
Act and the School-to-Work Jobs Act, pushing up the minimum wage and the
operation of a multitude of job training programs. He also came out as a
staunch advocate of new technology, and called on the nation to educate its
workforce regarding its use.

Robert
Reich currently works for the Goldman School of Public Policy as their
Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy. He has remained contributing editor
for numerous prominent journals and newspapers, such as The American Prospect,
Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, over
the course of his career. He is often regarded as one of the great minds of his
generation, with The Wall Street Journal listing him among the ‘Most
Influential Business Thinkers’ in 2008.

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Observations About
President Trump Written by Robert Reich:

He called Hillary
Clinton a crook. You bought it. Then he paid $25 million to settle a fraud
lawsuit.

He said he’d release his
tax returns, eventually. You bought it. He hasn’t, and says he never will.

He said he’d divest
himself from his financial empire, to avoid any conflicts of interest. You
bought it. He is still heavily involved in his businesses, manipulates the
stock market on a daily basis, and has more conflicts of interest than can even
be counted.

He said Clinton was in
the pockets of Goldman Sachs, and would do whatever they said. You bought it. He
then proceeded to put half a dozen Goldman Sachs executives in positions of
power in his administration.

He said he’d surround
himself with all the best and smartest people. You bought it. He nominated
theocratic loon Mike Pence for Vice President. A white supremacist named Steve
Bannon is his most trusted confidant. Dr. Ben Carson, the world’s greatest
idiot savant brain surgeon, is in charge of HUD. Russian quisling Rex Tillerson
is Secretary of State.

He said he’d be his own
man, beholden to no one. You bought it. He then appointed Betsy DeVos as
Secretary of Education, whose only “qualifications” were the massive amounts of
cash she donated to his campaign.

He said he would “drain
the swamp” of Washington insiders. You bought it. He then admitted that was
just a corny slogan he said to fire up the rubes during the rallies, and that
he didn’t mean it.

He said he knew more
about strategy and terrorism than the Generals did. You bought it. He promptly
gave the green light to a disastrous raid in Yemen- even though all his
Generals said it would be a terrible idea. This raid resulted in the deaths of
a Navy SEAL, an 8-year old American girl, and numerous civilians. The actual
target of the raid escaped, and no useful intel was gained.

He said Hillary Clinton
couldn’t be counted on in times of crisis. You bought it.
He didn’t even bother overseeing that raid in Yemen; and instead spent the time
hate-tweeting the New York Times, and sleeping.

He called CNN, the
Washington Post and the New York Times “fake news” and said they were his
enemy. You bought it. He now gets all his information from Breitbart, Gateway
Pundit, and InfoWars.

He called Barack Obama
“the vacationer-in-Chief” and accused him of playing more rounds of golf than
Tiger Woods. He promised to never be the kind of president who took cushy
vacations on the taxpayer’s dime, not when there was so much important work to
be done. You bought it.
He took his first vacation after 11 days in office on the taxpayer’s dime. And,
rather than do anything, he went golfing. And that’s just the first month.